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takes two



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see it takes two to tango .

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She is so buoyantly energetic that she takes two-mile walks on the Rockaway beach at a pace that exhausts her grandchildren.

In some places, however, the landlord takes two-thirds of the olives and the whole of the grapes and the mulberry leaves.

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tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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